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| A New Konjac Variety —‘Yumo No.1’ |
| NIU Yi;ZHANG Da-xue;LIU Hai-li;WANG Qi-jun;LIU Hong-yan;ZHANG Sheng-lin* |
| Konjac Resource Utilization Engineering Research Center in Chongqing Colleges and Universities,Chongqing Key Laboratory of Olericulture,College of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture,Southwest University,Chongqing 400716,China |
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Abstract Yumo No.1’is a new konjac variety which was systematically selected from a series of plants came from Yunnan province.It grows about 130 days.The triennium plant is 84.5 cm in height,68.9 cm in width.The leafstalk is 45.7 cm in length and 2.5 cm in diameter.The green laminae are pinnate split or second pinnate split,the stalk is cyan and with black spot,the corm is round with snuff color and white flesh.It has excellent characteristics such as dry matter content is about 21.5 %-22.2 %,konjac glucomannan content is about 59.8 %-60.2 %.Its yield is 30 t·hm-2.It is suitable to be cultivated in southwest of China.
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Received: 16 July 2009
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Corresponding Authors:
ZHANG Sheng-lin
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